The S.C. Aerospace Task Force is described by the S.C. Department of Commerce as “an advisory council to the secretary of commerce on the development of a strategic initiative to enhance and grow the state’s aerospace industry.”

About an hour after one of South Carolina's appointees to the Jasper Ocean Terminal board emailed government leaders yesterday in opposition to a bill aimed at him, I asked Sen. Clementa Pinckney to meet with me to tell me whether he agreed with the arguments made by this appointee - Bluffton's own Bill Bethea.

The S.C. Legislature is racing to pass changes to the state's Pollution Control Act, which relates to citizens' ability of to sue if they believe another party's pollution is harming them or their property.

Nearly eight hours of budget veto override votes paid off for members of the Jasper County Chamber of Commerce, the county council and its administrator, the mayor of Hardeeville, and some concerned locals -- who journeyed to the S.C. State House yesterday.

I’m not saying these people are guilty. But they could be. And some people do think so -- specifically law enforcement. Hence the arrests.

But you have to wonder if it’s worth it to actually try to cheat the taxman. Isn’t taxation legendary in its inevitability? The government will collect. And trying to hide isn't sexy. We view tax evaders as weaselly, slippery cheaters -- the opposite of team players -- and not in an alluring outlier way.